A thinking atom, born on a material atom across the boundless space of the Milky Way, man may well ask himself is he is as insignificant in soul as he is in body, if the law of progress can raise him in an indefinite ascent, and if there is a system of order in the moral World that is harmoniously associated with the order of the physical World. A pervasive process in mental life is a tendency toward “splitting of the ego.” The individual does not admit to full “ownership” over feelings, thoughts, or behaviour that violate one’s sense of selfhood or the norms of society. The disowned tendencies of the self are treated as extraneous forces, “not-me” intrusions, so that they can persist side by side with ordinary life without threatening self-worth. Losers in war tend to believe in the action of “chance” in history. There are truly, perhaps, some unforgivable sins. One of the most egregious sins is the sin of killing love in a human soul. Soul murder is when someone inflicts psychological death upon an individual. The dynamics of soul murder are particularly elusive because of an ancient psychological prejudice against evil. Theories of evil typically lack a conception of development, of psychological transformation from one condition to another. Psychologists have thoroughly examined the process of moral development, knowing that the growing child does not “naturally” evolve toward moral goodness. Yet the psychology of evil is a psychology of the state of being, not one of overcoming or becoming. Evil is (erroneously) treated as an indomitable inner force which “emanates” from the wicked individual, a courage of nature affording little control or understanding, wicked people simply are “evil incarnate.” #RandolphHarris 1 of 18

There is a timeless temptation to explain (away) the unsettling behaviours of other people by simply treating them as “demented,” “them,” “they,” strangers in our midst whose actions have no implications for us. Sometimes brutality is more learned than instinctive and emotional, but it still can mean that an individual is a crazed, bloodthirsty monster, essentially sadists. Many times, in society, we find groups of sadists overwhelmed by aggressive instincts just waiting to discharge their psychological fantasy. People say sadistic individuals are “acting like animals.” However, that may be offensive to animals and animal lovers for animal behavior is kindled by impulses—the animal hunts when it is in need of food. Humans, though they may experience similar needs, do not spontaneously or immediately yield to desire. Raw impulses are mediated, inhibited, and transformed by their integration in a cognitive system of long-term values, goals, and intentions. When humans are involved in violence, more specifically, attacking others without cause, there is usually some kind of brain disease involved in the offender. The hardships of everyday life become the conditions which, unfortunately, put some people at risk to become mass murderers, no matter their gender, race, religion. Many people suffer from political oppression, social ills, medical diseases, and personal anguish, and it affects people in different ways. However, not all people take their problems out on society, especially if they are mature enough to know there are better ways to deal with them. #RandolphHarris 2 of 18

In America, there has been a holocaust on Christian values and Capitalism. A rouge group of people want to remove God from the World and punish people who earned the things that they worked for. When people no longer fear God, are not taught to love, and have no respect for their country, human life, or private property, and unwilling population can be overcome by a small minority of criminals. And if they are not coerced into becoming anti-American, Anti-Christian, Anti-Capitalism, they are at least seduced by the vast machine of propaganda, which tends to be the TV news media. Propaganda does not fit the psychological nor the historical reality. Psychological studies of persuasion have long documented the limitations of campaigns to change people’s attitudes. Typically, people are only receptive to messages that agree with their prior beliefs and tend to avoid or distort contradictory information; they do the equivalent of “switching channels” on their TV sets. Not surprisingly, then, historians have found that not all people are thoroughly indoctrinated by the official propaganda. People tend to go against the established society due to economic hardships and promises of rewards for doing so. Economic and political frustrations usually lead to some kind of frustration-aggression link. Hardships are indeed a common feature of life, and not all people are able to deal with them in a rational manner. Many people are looking to project their suffering on to someone else. In the past, the Devil was to blame, but now that some many people no longer believe in God, they blame their fellow humans for their suffering by making them targets of their pain, instead of looking inside. #RandolphHarris 3 of 18

Many oppressive regimes come to power, and stay in power, through extensive purges of “internal enemies”—suspected opponents to their rule. People are also assigned to office or hired for positions based on Affirmative Action (all though it is no longer called that). They are selected because of their skin colour, sexuality, religion, and/or gender. Qualifications no longer matter. There is not even a regard or interest in the individual’s psychological profile. This can lead to a select group of deviants coming into power. No longer is the goal to find the “right” person, for they rouges believe, correctly, that they can transform ordinary personalities into deviant temperament. Almost any individual who comes down the bureaucratic pipeline can be, in due time, remolded into offender. As we have seen in America, there has been an orgy of violence. People have been murdered, and thousands of homes and businesses were set afire and looted. The violence has provoked widespread dismay for law in order, for many reasons. Some people who are living by the law are not protected by the law, and others use the law to help them bully and harass innocent people. This is what comes when we put communists in power in America politics. It spreads like a grass fire in the summer. When people have respect for America, respect for the flag, respect for the national anthem, believed in God, and had family values, and believed in the American Dream, they wanted to work hard and did not condone or support discrimination as they do today. #RandolphHarris 4 of 18

However, it seems like since America has run up such a huge deficit, anything goes. Employees no longer have respect for customers, some businesses have such high turnover, it is hard to understand how they still function, while other corporations have no care for the laws and break them all the time. It is becoming so bad in some places in America that the federal government has to step in. However, many of these offenders are so insane that federal authority does not even scare them. The World has documented the progressive barbarization of America. However, it is not really as widespread as it seems. Many of the people are still normal, still nice, still believe in God. Yet, offenders often will participate in crimes that are sanctioned by judges, politicians, and law enforcement because they are facing criminal charges and want to have them dropped or reduced. With the rampant corruption, it is easy for anti-Americans to target and terrorize people when they want to, which is why it is important NOT to use Affirmative Action in hiring practices or elections. Selected people who are truly qualified. Many people have quite an incredible lack of human and moral feeling. By forgetting about God, no longer having pride in one’s country and not wanting to work to earn the American Dream, society has been re-educated to believe that they should have a right to entitlement just because they are here. #RandolphHarris 5 of 18

The real achievement of communist in power in America and the persistent misery they are inflicting is not their technological or bureaucratic force but their psychological violence; the misery is not America, but the millions of ordinary people who have been transformed into ardent followers and the process of the psychological manufacture of evil. How could communists come into power in America, the land of God, it is often asked? In one sense, it did not happen here, but in a systematically altered psychological environment. Evil, and goodness, do not simply lurk deep in the heart, waiting for the lifting of repression or for the opportunity that calls them forth. Evil and goodness do not “spring” from inner depths; they are carefully nurture qualities of the mind. No only are the people going bad mostly ordinary people, but they have become so through the psychological process which transformed them into extraordinarily bad individuals. Barbarity is not a biological curse from birth; goodness, not an extraordinary gift. Both are learned, cultivated, and taught. They evolve gradually out of human interaction. Only an esthetic preference for symmetry leads us to search for abnormal causes to explain abnormal behavior. Depravity and nobility are fashioned, like other behavior, by ordinary social forces, implicating, in many ways, perpetrators, victims, and bystanders alike. Uncommon vice and virtue evolve out of common components and a process of psychological transformation. They are, in one sense, within the reach of many individuals who might be subjected to the process of transformation. #RandolphHarris 6 of 18

Ordinary people, cast in extreme circumstances and initially subjected to great pressures, can become unusually bad or good. People need not be transformed into good or bad in all aspects of their personality, not for the rest of their lives. There may be, though, a differential susceptibility to the dynamics of transformation, transcending the individual and rooted in a larger psychological and historical culture. Collectivities can cultivate a heightened sensitivity to good or evil. Their may be a special path in psychology that leads some people to be who they are. Genocide is not merely an aberration of the past; it is a threat of the future whose psychological dynamics must be elucidated before it goes any further in America. Americans are already becoming accustomed to the new psychology of mass murder with the heavy focus on shootings that the TV news media plays like a daytime soap opera with their fake emotions they use to boost ratings. Do you really want their “thoughts and prayers”? Because more than likely, human life does not matter to them. They are so doped up on psychotropic drugs and street drugs and desperate to make a name for themselves and lurking around like a junkie looking for dope on the 1^st of the month in order to create news. The first major political goal of the TV news media today is to spread Anti-Americanism. This must now be determined by emotional criteria…anti-Americanism stemming from purely emotional reasons will always find its expression in the form of pogroms. #RandolphHarris 7 of 18

What we need to be careful of is fostering the psychological mobilization of murderous instincts. Be ware of the discharge of pre-existing, deep-seated aggression following the lifting of inhibitions; or it is described as a split within a “hollowed out” individual such that the murderous tendencies coexist with and are disconnected from the rest of the personality. The shaping of a dispassionate murderous mentality is achieved not through desensitization but through the cultivation of inner moral conflict, leading to a transformation of attitudes in search of personal consistency. The spiral of murder is fueled, initially, by moral anxiety at one’s prior actions. The shaping of the murderous mentality follows a gradual, twisted psychological path. It involves an ineluctable progression from smaller initial offenses, seemingly devoid of larger significance, through moral conflict and psychological adjustment, to the ultimate atrocities. The strong of small acts that leads to great crimes facilitates the incomprehension of the victims—and of the perpetrators, who may fail to grasp their condition until it is too late. We tend to think of socialization into evil (and into heroism) as one continuous, smooth process. In fact, it consists of two contrary moments, animated by different motivations. The slide into evil is not self-starting, a smile slipper slope. However, at moment two, it is self-sustaining. The beginnings of spiral, and the progression to new levels, require the pressure of a legitimate authority. (Keep in mind, whomever is convincing you to do illegal acts will not pay for your lawyer when you get arrested.) #RandolphHarris 8 of 18

The sequence typically is triggered by a pivotal distressing encounter with evil (or with suffering, in the case of helpers) leading to reluctant compliance under pressure (to commit evil or to help). Progressively, the individual increases one’s involvement, disregarding internal and external obstacles, in a sustained flight forward. Initially, the individual sets aside one’s compunctions and crosses one’s internal red line at the urging of an authority—political, scientific, or social. Medical doctors and lawyers can play key roles in the campaigns of mass murder, not because of any particular expertise but to preserve the aura of political and scientific legitimacy of the regime. At the first transgression after the initial clash with evil, and the small incremental steps that follow, the individual keenly feels a conflict. One acts only reluctantly, “in spite of oneself,” know that “internally” one disagrees with the objectionable actions. The progression is facilitated by the illusion of minimal change; the next step is a mere adjustment, not that different from its predecessor. Gradually, insensibly, the individual adapts and the reference point for the action changes: the individual focuses no longer on the absolute meaning of one’s behavior or on its general consequences. The distant end of one’s actions is out-of-view, and the individual would be horrified at the foretelling of one’s transformation; the immediate impact of one’s actions also is kept out of view, for one only considers their relative difference is fairly small. Thus, to quell one’s doubts, the individual engages in self-justification, best accomplished by escalating one’s commitment by one or two more degrees. #RandolphHarris 9 of 18

The process poses a difficult psychological dilemma. Economists have argued that in deciding future actions, one should only consider anticipated consequences and not “suck costs,” past expenditures that no longer have any bearing on current deliberations. Psychologically, the evolving perpetrators is wholly driven by sunk costs: how can one find a justification for quitting at any particular moment when one has complied so far? The process is not unlike the classic Greek paradox of the heap of sand: no one grain of sand can possibly create a heap, so one can go on adding single grains of sand to each other ad infinitum without ever forming a heap. Through this invisible progression, the individual passes a moral point of no return but does not realize it until several steps later. Since the steps were incremental, how could one, at that point, declare the next step immoral and not the previous one? How could one quit for moral reasons without thereby acknowledging one’s depravity for one’s previous actions. Mr. Macbeth has expressed the sheer agony of the second moment: “I am in blood steeped so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as a tedious as go o’er” (Shakespeare, 1974, pp. 136-38). From moment two on, the individual has at last overcome one’s temptation not of violence but of morality and pity. One has neutralized any moral motivation, silenced the internal struggle, and achieved an uneasy psychological equilibrium. #RandolphHarris 10 of 18

Profound changes occur in one’s attitudes to adjust one’s sense of oneself as an innocent perpetrator. One shifts one’s mental focus away from the behaviour itself to one’s relationship with authorities, to one’s own changing expectations, or to the details of one’s undertaking. One adopts not a morality of desire but one of instrumental efficiency, casting oneself as the instrument of another’s will or higher purpose. Conscience, which some reject as an evil invention, becomes conscientious over the quality of performance. The fragmented focus allows diffusion of responsibility and perpetuates a salutary ambiguity about whether one’s own actions are causes or consequences. So one is following order, all right: at moment one, one still follows someone else’s orders; from moment two on, one follows one’s own inner commands, to alleviate one’s moral anguish. It is a desperate flight from crime into crime. The offender’s psychological gradualism does not aim to transform the entire personality or to “split off” a murderous part of it. On the contrary, the offender wants to stress the horror of their actions. The offender wants the violence he or she is instilling in others is a very grave matter, a most difficult duty, and it is remarkable that they stick it out with no injury to their soul and character. Many times for the offender who is in charge, it may be difficult for him or her to carrying out their evil they are teaching others, but they do it because it is implemented out of a sense of obedience and absolute conviction. #RandolphHarris 11 of 18

The shaping of the murderous mentality requires moral conflict. It cultivates a new philosophy of heroism; it is designed to overcome not external adversity, but the internal psychological inhibitions against atrocities. The offenders expect the perpetrators to feel bad about their actions and harness these feelings to fuel the murderous course. The bad feelings come from the conflict, fostered by the offenders, between outer behavior and inner feelings; between the public and private domains; between the violence to the victims and the tenderness to family and friends; between personal preferences and the demands of the role. In this conflict, the private, “real,” good part of the individual compensates for the superficial, murderous “self.” The individual is heroically performing one’s job, thereby doing violence to one’s inner humane feelings. Psychological gradualism from gray transgressions to the most malignant of all crimes permeates the offender’s entire enterprise. Some of their actions are accepted because they see their leaders doing them and they follow their lead, but these types of deviant groups will also usually turn on each other, eventually. Therefore, counterfeit guidance can be a huge problem. Many self-actualized think the “guidance” or “leading” of God to be only by a voice saying “Do this” or “Do that”; or by some compulsory movement or impulse apart from the action or volition of the human. They point to the words used about the Lord: “The Spirit driveth Him into wilderness.” #RandolphHarris 12 of 18

However, this was unusual in the life of Christ, for the statement sets the scene for an intense spirit conflict during which they Holy Spirit departed from His ordinary guidance. We have a glimpse into a similar intense movement in the spirit of the Lord Jesus in John 11.33, when “groaning with indignation in His spirit,” He went to the grave of Lazarus. In both instances He was moving forward to a direct conflict with Satan. In the case of Lazarus, it was with Satan as the Price of Death; the Gethsemane agony was of the same character. However, ordinarily the Lord was guided or led in simple fellowship with the Father: deciding, acting, reasoning, thinking, as One who knew the will of God and intelligently—I speak reverently—carried it out. The “voice” from Heaven was rare, and, as the Lord Himself said, was for the sake of others, not for Himself. He knew that Father’s will, and with every faculty of His being as man, he did it (see John 4.34, 5.30, 6.38 in the Christian Bible). As Christ was a pattern or example for His followers, guidance or “leading” in its perfect and true form is shown in His life; and believers can expect the coworking of the Holy Spirit when they walk after the pattern of their Example. Out of line with the Pattern, however, they cease to have the working of the Holy Spirit and become open to the deceptive counterfeit workings of evil spirits. If the believer ceases to use mind, reason, will, and all of one’s other faculties as a person and depends instead upon voices and impulses for guidance in every detail of life, one will be “led” or guided by evil spirits feigning to God. #RandolphHarris 13 of 18

The Christian Bible confronts us with the living God. However, does not God as being-itself or the ground of being seem dull, static, lifeless? Our idea of God as being-itself is far removed from the fixed identity. Life is the process in which potential becomes actual being. It is the actualization of the structural elements of being in their unity and in their tension. The elements of being here referred to are the ontological polarities: individualization-participation, dynamics-form, and freedom-destiny. Since in God there is no distinction and no transition between potentially and actuality, life cannot be predicated of God in its proper meaning, but only symbolically. The life-process is a constant movement of simultaneous separation and union of the polar elements. This process is rooted in the divine life, but the divine life is not subject to it and is consequently free of tension and the threat of dissolution. The ontological elements are the only avenue of approach to the divine life. For the categories described God’s relation to creatures, and the ontological structure of self-World implies separation, not interaction of the two poles. However, the first side of the polarities (individualization, dynamic, and freedom) represent the self. Man utilizes this subjective side in symbolizing the living God. He sees the divine life as personal, dynamic, and free. He cannot see it any other way, for God is man’s ultimate concern, and therefore He stands in analogy to that which man himself is. #RandolphHarris 14 of 18

Man can speak of the living God only in terms of life closet to himself, that is, his interior life of personality, dynamism, and freedom. And since the living God is also man’s ultimate concern, he must reach into the deepest levels of his human self for symbols to convey it. A woman of valour, who can find? Her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband trusteth in her, and he shall have no lack of gain. She doeth him good and not evil, all the days of her life. She looketh well to the ways of her household, she giveth food to her household, and a portion of her maidens. Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laugheth at the time to come. She stretch out her hand to the poor, yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy. She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and the law of lovingkindness is on her tongue. Her children rise up and call her blessed, her husband also, and he prasieth her: Many daughters have done worthily, but thou excellest them all. Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman that revereth the Lod, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her work praise her in the gates. Throughout the ages Thou has blessed us, O Lord, with women who tended the altars of our faith. Through these noble women America was redeemed; because of them has America survived. They have inspired and guided our youth; they have preserved and transmitted Thy word. Many the women in our generation like those of the past, keep America an eternal witness to Thee. May they, like Sarah, zealously guide their young, keeping them constant and steadfast in faith. Then shall our children remain ever devoted to Thee. May our women, like Rachel, be deeply concerned for the children of America wherever they dwell, sharing their glory, feeling their pain, and helping rebuild the ancient homeland. #RandolphHarris 15 of 18

May they, like Hannah, who joyfully brought her young Samuel to Shiloh for service to God, bring our children also in their tender years, for guidance and light to the House of the Lord, to learn the traditions, the teaching and laws of our prophets and sages, our martrys and saints. Then shall our children be imbued in their youth, with hope for their future through knowledge of their past. May our women, O Lord, inspire in our young a love for America and God, our true way of life. Though such noble women shall American be redeemed; through the merits of their children American survive. Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewithin, than a house full of feasting amidst strife. Yea, better to eat herbs where love is, than the choicest food and hated therewithin. Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Through wisdom is a house builded, and by understanding is it established. By knowledge is the home filled with all that is pleasant and precious. Make your house a meeting place for the learned, and give heed to their word. If three people have eaten at one table and have spoken words of the Christain Bible, it is as though they had eaten at God’s table. Blessed is that home where women regard the ways of her household. Blessed it the man who has a good wife, for the number of his days shall be doubled. Blessed is he who loves his wife and honors her, and directs his children into paths of righteousness. When husband and wife are worthy of each other, the divine spirits rests upon them. #RandolphHarris 16 of 18

A home where a man loves his wife as himself, and honors her beyond his own person, shall be blessed everlastingly. A home where children honor their parents is a home in which God dwells, and He Himself is honoured. How goodly are your tents, O Jacob, and your dwellings, O America? The ideal of equality of opportunity has furnished the basis for our review of the development of legal and political family agencies. At the first stage of their development, it might be said that political and legal agencies, apart from providing police protection, were mainly concerned with the redress of particular grievances. Orphans received guardians; abused children were put in foster homes. Injured mates could take their partners to court and receive divorces or separate maintenance. On the whole, however, the efforts of family agencies at this stage were primarily directed at obtaining conformity with the law and seeing that family responsibilities were fulfilled. This assumption was that if families did their duty, individuals would be protected in their access to opportunity. At their second stage of development, it is recognized that not merely occasional individuals, but considerable segments of the community, are recurrently subject to special hazards and ailments which require treatment. This to family courts are added counseling bureaus, whose job is to guarantee the welfare of dependent children. Parole and probation work is added to the methods of dealing with offenders. #RandolphHarris 17 of 18

Perhaps more so than any other class of family agencies, legal and political agencies have been slow in reaching this therapeutic stage. As for moving into preventive and positive stages of evolution, examples among these agencies are quite scarce. The best example of the therapeutic approach is perhaps the juvenile court, and programs for the prevention of juvenile delinquency have made headway in some places. Group therapy among prisoners, probationers, and parolees is still very much in the experimental state. Scattered youth commissions try to combine mental hygiene clinics with sport programs. Indeed, the paucity of positively oriented family protective agencies may account for the limited vision of just what they could be. Some citizenship educators and teachers of social studies have a fairly clear vision of positive aims, though their efforts fall under the heading of educational agencies, and their methods apply to the individual outside one’s family setting. Yet the type of experience which leads to social skill is that which positively oriented legal and political family agencies could help bring to family members. In the large family of the past, individuals had much more opportunity than at present to develop their capacities for participation in group decisions and activities. Today, if such skills are to develop, it must be through supplementing the family’s efforts, through life-life practice and at least vicarious exposure to wide experience. #RandolphHarris 18 of 18

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